John Allison 🇵🇸 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏳️‍🌈 🇨🇺

#bbclaurak The Guardian sacked Steve Bell after an outcry over his caricature of Benjamin Netanyahu (left) But so far, radio silence from #bbcnews et al after this anti-Semitic caricature of Zack Polanski by #TheTimes cartoonist, Peter Brookes (right)

Today, Kemi Badenoch claimed that Tommy Robinson marches don’t create an atmosphere of violence and intimidation. I’ve never heard anything so ridiculous in my life. You don’t see this at the pro-Palestine peace marches.

How do politicians end up with multi-million pound net worths on public salaries?

This is not normal. Don’t normalize this. Palestinian lives matter just like yours.

The level of complicity of the @BBC in the ethnic cleansing of southern Lebanon is shocking. I am listening to their Jerusalem correspondent report that the ‘IDF are striking Hezbollah targets’ while I’m on the ground in the middle of it watching men, women and children being killed on a daily basis. My colleagues are being executed. Paramedics are being systematically murdered. All of this is happening in plain sight and the BBC correspondent here in Lebanon knows it. May you all be put on trial for your deadly propaganda when the time comes. Shame on all of you, especially those on the ground who are too cowardly to speak out.

@metpoliceuk @ShabanaMahmood @OborneTweets @thetimes @joly

What controlled sang-froid! Thanks, Zack.

I'm just so so sick of ignorant media Islamophobes in senior positions of the UK & US media viciously going after anyone that dares stand up against the slaughter and ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people. Trevor Phillips notoriously got suspended from the Labour Party for Islamophobia, and you get the feeling, watching this astonishingly rude & sneary interview with @ZackPolanski, virtually the only senior British politician to show any sympathy for the Gazans, that Phillips frankly wouldn't lose a wink of sleep if every last Palestinian was erased from the face of the earth. He certainly can't see anything positive about protesting their genocide. Which raises the question: how and why did someone with such a record of toxic divisiveness ever get offered a Prime Time show in the first place?

The Greens have accused The Times of anti-semitism over this cartoon and have “engaged lawyers” over its depiction of Zack Polanski. A party spokesperson says: “It is astonishing that amongst a rising climate of anti-Semitism in the UK, a national newspaper has chosen to publish a cartoon of the only Jewish political leader in the country using tropes so clearly associated with anti-semitic depictions of Jewish people.    “Zack faces daily anti-semitism, and in the  past six weeks two people have been arrested for anti-semitic actions towards him. “The words used by both politicians and the media this week, directing further attacks towards Zack in the wake of a violent attack on his community, are deeply irresponsible.”

By sticking to his principles, Polanski will earn our votes You won't ever hear it on TV, or from the establishment, but voters are sick of the corporations, their media, their politicians, their wars, and their lies Polanski stands up to bullies - and they can't handle the truth

@ZackPolanski Thank you for standing your ground and digging in against the barrage of desperate questioning from the likes of Kuenssberg, Phillips et al. Keep it up, they are clearly not used to this!👏✊

Dangerously irresponsible of Rowley. Jews on the marches can testify none have passed by any synagogue, nor were they ever intended to. Pro-Palestinian protest is directed at Israel, not Jews. Rowley is stoking Jewish fear. He must retract.

This man is on his way out of office. With McSweeney and Mandelson gone, there’s no-one left to protect him from his own cabinet. But Keir Starmer doesn’t want you to know about his connections to the Israel Lobby. These are the individuals paying for his obedience:🧵

Labour don’t want you to vote Greens. The Tories don’t want you to vote Green. Reform don’t want you to vote Green. That tells you all you need to know. 💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚

Zack Polanski handled this amazingly bad faith interview with calm, grace, integrity and honesty.

@chunkymark *sickened

Absolutely disgraceful the British media has lost it SKY BBC the Daily Mail the Times all of them and their treatment of Zack Polanski is deeply sickening in the context of an ongoing genocide, the only politician to stand up and say this is not ok, as a country this should be a tipping point

Excellent @ZackPolanski you were calm under so much pressure. Mike Lynch rightfully corrected that dreadful woman who looked ike she was about to spontaneously combust, even Trevor P pulled her on her vile targetted rhetoric. Stay cool Zack. Onwards and upwards.

@bmay Better move abroad Brendan. You're going to hear a great deal more. Especially as he's likely bound for No.10.

I am so monumentally bored of Zac Polanski. Utterly tiresome.

I can’t imagine Trevor Phillips saying this to any other Jewish politician in the UK, certainly not one from the Labour or Tory parties, and certainly not on this tone. If you had any doubts they’re trying to ‘Corbynize’ Polanski:

I’d suggest that a Sky News presenter roaring at Polanski, who he quite obviously despises, and then nodding and smiling his way through wacko comments from brazen fascist crank Melanie Phillips, is helpfully illustrative of How It Came To This.